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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Intestinal transplantation is an acceptable alternative for patients with intestinal failure after Crohns disease, according to a new study. The report, online August 27 in JAMA Surgery, also proposes a new scoring system to help identify patients who might undergo this treatment instead of additional attempts at conventional surgery. This paper is the first to address a risk-benefit of transplantation vs. conventional therapy in Crohns disease and also aims to create a scaffold for a referring physician to quantify the risk of morbidity from transplantation versus conventional therapy, senior author Dr. Anil Vaidya from Churchill Hospital in Oxford, UK, told Reuters Health by email.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 20:08:11 +0000

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